PCR Journal Club

The authors hypothesized that enriching invasive coronary angiography (ICA) with an advanced invasive diagnosis (AID) strategy would increase the diagnostic yield of obstructive and non-obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA).

This registry-based observational study demonstrated that, in patients with STEMI and LTB, TA failure was associated with reduced myocardial perfusion and increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.

The current subanalysis of the BioVasc trial offers valuable insights into the long-term effects of ICR versus SCR strategies in STEMI patients with MVD. The findings support current guidelines on the necessity of revascularizing non-culprit lesions.

The rationale for this study was to provide direct evidence of colchicine's effects on plaque stabilization, particularly by assessing changes in plaque characteristics using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

This trial found that, in ACS patients undergoing PCI, DP-DES and BP-DES had similar patient-oriented outcomes at three years, but BP-DES had higher device-oriented composite outcomes, mainly due to increased TLR risk.

This pre-specified substudy of CompareCrush aimed to examine if patients with a large myocardial infarction benefit from prehospital crushed prasugrel.

This study sought to compare outcomes between patients presenting with STEMI before and after the recent ESC guidelines for the management of ACS recommend against pre-treatment with P2Y12 inhibitors in STEMI patients.

The STOPDAPT-2 trial was a multicenter, open-label, adjudicator-blinded, randomised control trial comparing clopidogrel monotherapy after one-month DAPT with aspirin monotherapy following 12-months DAPT in patients undergoing PCI with a everolimus-eluting stent...

This is a trial aiming to assess QFR and 3D-QCA DS% of all the non-infarct related arteries (IRA) with 3D-QCA DS% in all patients presenting with STEMI/NSTEMI and undergoing coronary angiography. 

This study challenges the double-jeopardy assumption as the main cause of adverse outcome in STEMI with non-IRA CTO, as a collateral origin distal from the acute IRA occlusion was associated with a significantly better prognosis than with a proximal origin.